{"id":9534,"date":"2025-07-20T23:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9534\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:39:08","slug":"ufc-318-reaction-whats-dustin-poiriers-legacy-after-losing-retirement-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9534\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 318 reaction: What&#8217;s Dustin Poirier&#8217;s legacy after losing retirement fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier didn&#8217;t get his fairytale ending at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-318-holloway-vs-poirier-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 318;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 318<\/a> when he came up short in his trilogy bout with Max Holloway.<\/p>\n<p>Poirier (30-10 MMA, 22-9 UFC) came close to scripting the perfect end with a near-finish of Holloway (27-8 MMA, 23-8 UFC) at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, but he could not finish the fight and came out on the wrong of <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-318-results-dustin-poirier-053237523.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:a unanimous decision;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a unanimous decision<\/a> in the BMF title bout on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Diamond&#8221; has now officially retired from MMA competition after leaving his gloves in the center of the cage, closing out a career that will hold the test of time and is universally admired.<\/p>\n<p>What type of legacy does Poirier leave behind in MMA, both in and out of the octagon? Watch the video above for thoughts and analysis on Poirier&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/07\/20\/ufc-318-reaction-dustin-poirier-legacy-loss-retirement-fight-max-holloway\/85298714007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 318 reaction: What is Dustin Poirier&#039;s legacy after loss?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 318 reaction: What is Dustin Poirier&#8217;s legacy after loss?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier didn&#8217;t get his fairytale ending at UFC 318 when he came up short in his trilogy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,1394,786,1395,785,1181,85,787],"class_list":["post-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dustin-poirier","tag-fighting","tag-max-holloway","tag-mma","tag-smoothie-king-center","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}